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tim geithner said he was forced to change his signature before it was fit to print. richard wolfe, when i was chief of staff at the senate finance committee, we of course had to confirm treasury secretary. and i had when i was all done -- this thing was run through the committee. and the question is when exactly is it going to be voted on, on the floor? because it was the floor vote, absolutely guaranteed. the matter of a crowded calendar. it is the floor vote that really does make you treasury secretary. and the guy was in there, doing the job. i kept getting the calls, when is it going to happen. i finally said, it is going to happen, don't worry. he said he wants to sign the money. it is a big deal, signing that money is a big deal. >> for every school child -- >> and -- it is going to come any day now. and you're appointed -- >> because i'm not going to go for senate. >> really? did you break that news? >> yeah, i just made that announcement. >> so you know, washington still in this day and age, 2013, still has the fetish of the signature. and it is not just the
tim geithner said he was forced to change his signature before it was fit to print. richard wolfe, when i was chief of staff at the senate finance committee, we of course had to confirm treasury secretary. and i had when i was all done -- this thing was run through the committee. and the question is when exactly is it going to be voted on, on the floor? because it was the floor vote, absolutely guaranteed. the matter of a crowded calendar. it is the floor vote that really does make you treasury...
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but to depict the treasury secretary, generally speaking, it is a job that converts tim geithner will know what his politics were. wall street was comfortable with him. neil: layoffs were announced today with american express. >> well, look, it's the greatest thing the world that taxes will go up on 99% of the people. and spending will go unchecked. it's that our government. it's bad for our country long-term. that is exactly what we see, and you are seeing something similar act in 1824 when we had the jacksonians that they block whatever they were going to do. neil: there is something that touched her greatness. a greatness of the movie. hollywood sees this opportunity to do more of this type of stuff. is that true? >> more of what? >> one historical movies. neil: ben affleck was nominated for a movie he was an. >> in. >> yes, i think he has a career in movies. but not in politics. i think he is going to do well and do his next project. also don't forget that the director was snubbed for "zero dark thirty." neil: is that right? so hollywood could be reversing that. >> maybe they are
but to depict the treasury secretary, generally speaking, it is a job that converts tim geithner will know what his politics were. wall street was comfortable with him. neil: layoffs were announced today with american express. >> well, look, it's the greatest thing the world that taxes will go up on 99% of the people. and spending will go unchecked. it's that our government. it's bad for our country long-term. that is exactly what we see, and you are seeing something similar act in 1824...
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on this bill you have tim geithner's signature because he's the treasury secretary. if lew is the next treasury secretary? it's over one document after another. you can get a pretty close-up look at it. there it is. image that on your dollar bills. that's how it would look like. tim geithner decided to clean it up before he came up with his signature. >> make it look more official. looks like an 8th grade girl's signature. >> makes a lot of doctor's signatures look legible. >> doug luzader thank you very much. >>> we have extreme weather striking the south this morning. >> janice dean is following us this morning. she is live. >> a spring lime storm moving through texas, louisiana. this is in towards mississippi where we have another tornado warning south of alexandria seeing strong rotation across doppler radar. this could be rain wrapped so people may not see this coming. this is a dangerous situation. severe threat in and around where we see the tornado watch until noon local time. that will stretch into mississippi throughout the day today. flash flooding also. w
on this bill you have tim geithner's signature because he's the treasury secretary. if lew is the next treasury secretary? it's over one document after another. you can get a pretty close-up look at it. there it is. image that on your dollar bills. that's how it would look like. tim geithner decided to clean it up before he came up with his signature. >> make it look more official. looks like an 8th grade girl's signature. >> makes a lot of doctor's signatures look legible. >>...
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if confirmed he will replace tim geithner who is stepping down. his confirmation process is not expected to be too difficult. >>> labor secretary hilda salicious resigned her post and is expected to return home to california. she won praise from the labor unions for aggressive enforcement of wage and hourly laws. business groups have criticized her, though, for the same reasons. >>> a d.c. police officer has been arrested and charged with first degree child sex abuse. wendell palmer is a 22-year veteran of the force now on leave pending the outcame of -- outcome of this criminal case. >>> it's happened again in louisa county, virginia. an earthquake. around 6:30, a 2.0 magnitude quake shook the county. it was the epicenter of the huge quake we all felt in august 2011 2011. >>> boston, massachusetts has declared a public health emergency all because of this amazing flu that's sweeping the country. this year's flu season started earlier and is hitting harder than it has been in recent years and that's putting a strain on the health care system. >> i
if confirmed he will replace tim geithner who is stepping down. his confirmation process is not expected to be too difficult. >>> labor secretary hilda salicious resigned her post and is expected to return home to california. she won praise from the labor unions for aggressive enforcement of wage and hourly laws. business groups have criticized her, though, for the same reasons. >>> a d.c. police officer has been arrested and charged with first degree child sex abuse. wendell...
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when we began this fiscal slope, curve, cliff discussion, tim geithner was involved, there was a sense jack lew would be involved. they were marginalized towards the end, and as glenn mentions, vice president biden was the guy to sweep in at the last minute to make the deal. congressional republicans sound like they don't really want to work with him. is that a problem for the administration? >> yes and no. the administration has done this in the past, you bring in the heavy to close the deal. it's like when you're trying to discipline your children, don't wait till your father gets home, you can kind of keep jack lew in the background to bring in him. there's a view of having someone who's strong, lew is not a fist pounder. lew derives his authority and respect from the command of the issues, and i don't mean the command of the issues, i mean the command of the numbers. he can dig down, divide fractions in his head. that's why he's a danger and threat to some house republicans. this isn't meant to be negative about the house republicans. they don't simply have sort of the institutiona
when we began this fiscal slope, curve, cliff discussion, tim geithner was involved, there was a sense jack lew would be involved. they were marginalized towards the end, and as glenn mentions, vice president biden was the guy to sweep in at the last minute to make the deal. congressional republicans sound like they don't really want to work with him. is that a problem for the administration? >> yes and no. the administration has done this in the past, you bring in the heavy to close the...
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. >>> still ahead, president obama announced his pick to replace tim geithner at the treasury department. how jack lew's influence will impact your wallet. >>> plus, lance armstrong, heading to oprah. but will he confess to doping? my next guest calls it ridiculous. don't miss it. aww man. [ male announcer ] returns are easy with free pickup from the u.s. postal service. we'll even drop off boxes if you need them. visit usps.com pay, print, and have it picked up for free. any time of year. ♪ nice sweater. thank you. ♪ and save hundreds with our best offer. get an adt security system starting at just $49 installed, but for a limited time only. that's an instant savings of $250. don't leave your family's safety to chance when you can take advantage of these savings now. call or visit adt.com/tv. both: i had a break-in. man: by the time we called the police, there wasn't much they could do. i felt so helpless. adt quickly called the police. i felt like it was over right away. feels like it's still not over. we lost our digital photos, financial records, things that insurance simply can'
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would replace tim geithner. if lou does become treasury secretary, his loopy signature could grace the dollar bill. not that you'll be able to read it. it does kind of start off with a j and followed by 7 scribbles. that is his real signature. the signature of the secretary is on the lower right corner of every single u.s. bill. i heard also that treasury secretary tim geithner had a pretty bad signature and ended up having to learn how to change it. >> really? all his life he had his signature and learn how to change it. >> as long as i have money in my pocket, it doesn't matter. that is pretty funny they are looking at that. let's turn our attention to tucker barnes. tucker has cuteness for us on this thursday morning. >> i have fabulousness. let's get to it and take a look here. you know what time it is. time for my first 5 photo of the day. >> aww, good morning. >> take a look at this cutie. >> little baby. >> we've been hanging out with little ones. this is ellington erin rose. she's probably sleeping. she'
would replace tim geithner. if lou does become treasury secretary, his loopy signature could grace the dollar bill. not that you'll be able to read it. it does kind of start off with a j and followed by 7 scribbles. that is his real signature. the signature of the secretary is on the lower right corner of every single u.s. bill. i heard also that treasury secretary tim geithner had a pretty bad signature and ended up having to learn how to change it. >> really? all his life he had his...
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the president nominating his current chief of staff, jack lew, to replace tim geithner. before jack lew joined the white house administration he served as the chief operating officer of citigroup's global wealth management and served as president bill clinton's budget director and crafted a bipartisan agreement that sparked budget surpluses. the president said the loss of jack lew as his chief of staff will be the country's gain. >> i trust his friendship, very few people with greater integrity than the man to my left. so i don't want to see him go because it's working out well for me to have him here in the white house. >> shepard: but he already had some strong opposition. especially from the top republican lawmaker, jack session, who said, jack lew must never be secretary of the treasury. we have the author of the book, how winners -- jeff sessions can say that. >> this is all about -- >> how can he say thing. >> this is posturing for the big battle everybody knows is coming. the first thing lew will do, the debt ceiling standoff, budget cuts, the same battle we have
the president nominating his current chief of staff, jack lew, to replace tim geithner. before jack lew joined the white house administration he served as the chief operating officer of citigroup's global wealth management and served as president bill clinton's budget director and crafted a bipartisan agreement that sparked budget surpluses. the president said the loss of jack lew as his chief of staff will be the country's gain. >> i trust his friendship, very few people with greater...
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tim geithner stepping down. how do you think it's going to impact? do you think, either of you, if the president were to ask tim geithner to stick around at least through that, like, listen, friend, can you extend this another six weeks because i don't want to go through a nomination fight in the middle of all of this as well, don't you think tim geithner would say okay? >> one thing i learned in politics, if the president of the united states asks you to do something, you usually do it. you do it enthusiastically. i think timothy geithner, i agree with what jimmy was saying, i think he knew for a long time he was leaving. they've had a long time to get their successor in place. i think it is going to be jack lew for a variety of reasons. in this fiscal cliff debate, we saw jack on the sideline and not fighting with the senators. think he was saving him for this nomination process. i think it is going to be jack. >> good to see you both. thanks, guys. >>> today's twitter question is how much control should congress have over a president's cabinet pic
tim geithner stepping down. how do you think it's going to impact? do you think, either of you, if the president were to ask tim geithner to stick around at least through that, like, listen, friend, can you extend this another six weeks because i don't want to go through a nomination fight in the middle of all of this as well, don't you think tim geithner would say okay? >> one thing i learned in politics, if the president of the united states asks you to do something, you usually do it....
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geithner's private calculations. >> how real is the concern among congressional democrats that as you crawl from crisis to crisis that it prevents the administration from advancing with long-range policies with regard to imgramigration or gun control. >> i don't think it should. the administration has enormous powers under existing law. for instance, they could institute large parts of the cap and trade bill which passed the house through regulation, through rule making and the president actually did institute a large part of what would have been our bill on immigration, the dream act through administrative action. the president has a lot of power and he should use it to solve the country's problems. >> how would you characterize your last stint in congress. how would you characterize that compared to this upcoming stint? >> well, we did a lot of good for a lot of people, particularly in our district and i think they'll be able to do it again. a lot of the best things that we did in the district had nothing to do with votes on the floor and the job creates opportunities to do good thi
geithner's private calculations. >> how real is the concern among congressional democrats that as you crawl from crisis to crisis that it prevents the administration from advancing with long-range policies with regard to imgramigration or gun control. >> i don't think it should. the administration has enormous powers under existing law. for instance, they could institute large parts of the cap and trade bill which passed the house through regulation, through rule making and the...
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what i would say, somebody reminded me that tim geithner changed his signature a little bit when he became treasury secretary because he's going to be on the bill. so maybe. >> let's see it again. bring that picture back, because we just showed what it would look like. that is his signature. that's jack lew. if you want to go to him -- he may be a doctor, maybe he has a ph.d. he's not a medical doctor as far as i know. it's got to be the world's worst signature, looks more like a doodle. >> i wonder how he came up with it. >> assuming that's confirmed. one more quick thing, we showed you the picture that the white house photographer took of the president and his top advisers during one of the fiscal cliff deadline meetings in the oval office, and they swear to us that somewhere hidden valerie jarrett is sitting on the desk, so there is a woman somewhere in this picture, but christian, jack lew, assuming jack lew is named treasury tomorrow and there will be a male chief of staff replacing jack lew, where are the women? >> well, andrea, there's no doubt that women's advocacy groups are criti
what i would say, somebody reminded me that tim geithner changed his signature a little bit when he became treasury secretary because he's going to be on the bill. so maybe. >> let's see it again. bring that picture back, because we just showed what it would look like. that is his signature. that's jack lew. if you want to go to him -- he may be a doctor, maybe he has a ph.d. he's not a medical doctor as far as i know. it's got to be the world's worst signature, looks more like a doodle....
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. >>> and finally tonight, my observation on today's nomination of jack lew to replace tim geithner as the new treasury secretary. it's important to look at this in context of what it may mean for the debate on spending cuts as we approach this debt ceiling limit and the fight that is ensuing. tim get near is leaving january 25th. that means lew will be the main point person for this debt ceiling drama. so, what does this mean ahead of what is likely to be another hard fight? perhaps the best clues for that are in an op-ed from two years ago from jack lew. inis entitled "the easy cuts are behind us." the piece absolutely advocates getting out of our debt and getting the debt and deficit under control. but it does so by discussing some cuts in defense and then examples of scaling back things like something called the great lakes restoration initiative. not eliminating it, just cutting it by maybe a quarter of its present cost. a sav
. >>> and finally tonight, my observation on today's nomination of jack lew to replace tim geithner as the new treasury secretary. it's important to look at this in context of what it may mean for the debate on spending cuts as we approach this debt ceiling limit and the fight that is ensuing. tim get near is leaving january 25th. that means lew will be the main point person for this debt ceiling drama. so, what does this mean ahead of what is likely to be another hard fight? perhaps...
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now fans of his loops are petition to go see his squiggles on every bill because when tim geithner became head of treasury, he changed his signature to be more legible on currency. these folks don't want jack to follow suit. we just checked and 326 people have signed the loopdy loop petition. 25,000 signatures are needed to reach the petitioner's goal. >> rick: these are folks who want him to keep the signature the way it is. >> arthel: they want that quibbley. >> rick: my signature is completely illegible. >> arthel: mine is good. >> rick: women tend o have neater handwriting. >> arthel: it tends to trail off. oh, well. >> rick: when we come back, we'll switch gears and we'll go back into the discussion about the gun debate in this country. the topic heating up in washington in the wake of the deadly connecticut school shootings. but are politics getting in the way of finding real solutions to gun violence? we'll talk about that. >> arthel: new talk of conspiracy in the death of john f. kennedy. it's been nearly 50 years since he was assassinated in dallas. we'll tell you why his nephew
now fans of his loops are petition to go see his squiggles on every bill because when tim geithner became head of treasury, he changed his signature to be more legible on currency. these folks don't want jack to follow suit. we just checked and 326 people have signed the loopdy loop petition. 25,000 signatures are needed to reach the petitioner's goal. >> rick: these are folks who want him to keep the signature the way it is. >> arthel: they want that quibbley. >> rick: my...
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tim geithner had a messy signature on 4is back but in the bill it's completely lenlible. looks like alexander hamilton. >>> next aig has thought better about suing the federal government over the terms of the 2008 bank bailout. yes, the same taxpayer funded bailout that brought them $200 billion and saved them from bankruptcy. anyway, before the news of the potential lawsuit aig launched an ad campaign thanking taxpayers for the bailout money. in light of the planned lawsuit, conan o'brien offered an alternati alternative. >> aig, we said we were going to turn it around and we did. >> we're now leaner and focused on what we do best. >> a profit of more than $22 billion. >> we turned it around. >> [ bleep ] you, america. >> [ bleep ] you, america. >> [ bleep ] you, america. >> from all of us at aigp seriously america, go [ bleep ] yourselves. >> it's tough to see how they even toyed with the idea of a lawsuit against the same government that saved them from bankruptcy. >>> next, if you're in congress and planning to oppose the next round of victims of hurricane sandy you b
tim geithner had a messy signature on 4is back but in the bill it's completely lenlible. looks like alexander hamilton. >>> next aig has thought better about suing the federal government over the terms of the 2008 bank bailout. yes, the same taxpayer funded bailout that brought them $200 billion and saved them from bankruptcy. anyway, before the news of the potential lawsuit aig launched an ad campaign thanking taxpayers for the bailout money. in light of the planned lawsuit, conan...
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lew is in line to replace tim geithner geithner. geithner had this clumsy indecipherable stroke to this legibly squeezed substitute. previous secretaries penned readable signatures. geithner told them last spring india is to blame. >> i took handwriting in third grade in new delhi, india. i probably did not get the best signature. >> no one knows if lew wants to take his signature to rewrite. it's hard to know where to begin. >> jack lew has a symbolic squiggly signature. if he cares about his legacy if he cares that people can read his handwriting, he'll adjust his handwriting and be more transparent. >> the white house won't say whether or not lew will work on his penmanship. they say it's easy to forge. not a comforting thought when you think about a treasury secretary. if you're thinking, well, my signature has issues of its own. nobody has asked me to be treasury secretary and definitely never will. >> thank you, major. what's interesting about this is why does he sign his name that way? >> i don't know, charlie. i was trying t
lew is in line to replace tim geithner geithner. geithner had this clumsy indecipherable stroke to this legibly squeezed substitute. previous secretaries penned readable signatures. geithner told them last spring india is to blame. >> i took handwriting in third grade in new delhi, india. i probably did not get the best signature. >> no one knows if lew wants to take his signature to rewrite. it's hard to know where to begin. >> jack lew has a symbolic squiggly signature. if...
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and ironically, i think if as tim geithner did, the secretary of the treasury, float this idea of abolishing the law that requires a congressional vote, that sort of the ultimate threat that the president has. whether he can get that through or not. but that's the ultimate nightmare for the tea party. >> quickly both of you gentlemen, i want your take on the filibuster reform that is pending. there is a lot of commentary being given in the senate about what should be done. would this make it a toxic atmosphere, eugene, if harry reid goes for the full ball of wax and really smokes them out the way they have been filibustering and changes the rule? what does that do to debt ceiling negotiations, if anything? >> well, i think it probably exacerbates the tensions and the bad feelings in the senate, and where the feelings are not that bad right now. i don't know that he will try to push forward on that. >> what than, howard? >> i think he might try it. i think he is being pushed to try it by liberal constituencies who might see that as a payback for a time in which they're having to concede on me
and ironically, i think if as tim geithner did, the secretary of the treasury, float this idea of abolishing the law that requires a congressional vote, that sort of the ultimate threat that the president has. whether he can get that through or not. but that's the ultimate nightmare for the tea party. >> quickly both of you gentlemen, i want your take on the filibuster reform that is pending. there is a lot of commentary being given in the senate about what should be done. would this make...
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and ironically, i think if as tim geithner did, the secretary of the treasury, float this idea of abolishing the law that requires a congressional vote, that sort of the ultimate threat that the president has. whether he can get that through or not. but that's the ultimate nightmare for the tea party. >> quickly both of you gentlemen, i want your take on the filibuster reform that is pending. there is a lot of commentary being given in the senate about what should be done. would this make it a toxic atmosphere, eugene, if harry reid goes for the full ball of wax and really smokes them out the way they have been filibustering and changes the rule? what does that do to debt ceiling negotiations, if anything? >> well, i think it probably exacerbates the tensions and the bad feelings in the senate, and where the feelings are not that bad right now. i don't know that he will try to push forward on that. >> what about that, howard? >> i think he might try it. i think he is being pushed to try it by liberal constituencies who might see that as a payback for a time in which they're having to concede
and ironically, i think if as tim geithner did, the secretary of the treasury, float this idea of abolishing the law that requires a congressional vote, that sort of the ultimate threat that the president has. whether he can get that through or not. but that's the ultimate nightmare for the tea party. >> quickly both of you gentlemen, i want your take on the filibuster reform that is pending. there is a lot of commentary being given in the senate about what should be done. would this make...
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and ironically, i think if as tim geithner did, the secretary of the treasury, float this idea of abolishing the law that requires a congressional vote, that sort of the ultimate threat that the president has. whether he can get that through or not. but that's the ultimate nightmare for the tea party. >> quickly both of you gentlemen, i want your take on the filibuster reform that is pending. there is a lot of commentary being given in the senate about what should be done. would this make it a toxic atmosphere, eugene, if harry reid goes for the full ball of wax and really smokes them out the way they have been filibustering and changes the rule? what does that do to debt ceiling negotiations, if anything? >> well, i think it probably exacerbates the tensions and the bad feelings in the senate, and where the feelings are not that bad right now. i don't know that he will try to push forward on that. >> what than, howard? >> i think he might try it. i think he is being pushed to try it by liberal constituencies who might see that as a payback for a time in which they're having to concede on me
and ironically, i think if as tim geithner did, the secretary of the treasury, float this idea of abolishing the law that requires a congressional vote, that sort of the ultimate threat that the president has. whether he can get that through or not. but that's the ultimate nightmare for the tea party. >> quickly both of you gentlemen, i want your take on the filibuster reform that is pending. there is a lot of commentary being given in the senate about what should be done. would this make...
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one week i got yelled at for using a saturday night live character making fun of tim geithner. it was funny. he told me how outrageous this was and how the secretary himself was very upset when he heard about this, but i learned he has no sense of humor. [laughter] but it was bad. so we decided we'd meet off line and have a drink at one of those terrible washington restaurants to try to just clear the air. and we sort of had our chitchat, and i talked about how our daughter was about to be born, and then the conversation sort of turned. and he asked me what i wanted to do next, what my plans were after in this temporary job i had. i explained i wasn't really sure. i said, well, maybe a job on the street, meaning wall street, i said i wasn't really sure. and he said i was doing myself real harm. he explained to me that my tone of my criticisms of wall street as well as the obama administration was going to really harm my ability to get a job after i left this position. and, you know, i explained to herb that i wasn't terribly concerned about a job, i had a focus on this, and he
one week i got yelled at for using a saturday night live character making fun of tim geithner. it was funny. he told me how outrageous this was and how the secretary himself was very upset when he heard about this, but i learned he has no sense of humor. [laughter] but it was bad. so we decided we'd meet off line and have a drink at one of those terrible washington restaurants to try to just clear the air. and we sort of had our chitchat, and i talked about how our daughter was about to be...
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current treasury secretary tim geithner said he had a similar problem before he took over. here it is before he took the job. and here what it looks like now. he improved his penmanship to make it easier for folks to read. i can't argue. have you seen mine? martha: it deteriorates with every passing year. bill: jack lew that --. martha: well it is the worst flu outbreak in at least a decade and doing a number on people across the country. the virus is reported in 41 states with nine states reporting high or severe levels of flu. boston's mayor says his city is under siege. he is declaring a public health emergency. the state of massachusetts reporting 18 flu-related deaths so far. the hospitals can barely contain all the people pouring into them. >> we're seeing significant rates of hospitalization, much more serious than we've seen in the last two years. martha: molly line live from boston. molly, what can you tell us and i hope you have had a flu shot? >> reporter: i have had a flu shot actually. there have been 700 cases of flu across the city of boston this flu season.
current treasury secretary tim geithner said he had a similar problem before he took over. here it is before he took the job. and here what it looks like now. he improved his penmanship to make it easier for folks to read. i can't argue. have you seen mine? martha: it deteriorates with every passing year. bill: jack lew that --. martha: well it is the worst flu outbreak in at least a decade and doing a number on people across the country. the virus is reported in 41 states with nine states...
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even tim geithner is like listen, guys, dropping these hints saying how many times can we go through this. how many times can we keep the clock one second before midnight and i don't know. stuart: to say we run out of money on february 15th, that is not true because you have tax revenue coming at you. simply means the treasury has to decide where it will use -- charles: don't give veterans their benefits, some really stark and tough choices. the money coming in but how you did the out someone will be passed. stuart: two sides are so far apart, president obama said rider told john maynard there is no spending -- tracy: president obama is ignoring the debt commission about the last report of the president's first four years saying over the long run as the baby boomers retire health care costs continue to grow, the situation will become much worse. the debt commission's words, president obama doesn't seem to be listening to that. i don't think anybody at home will disagree, over $16 trillion, we had a spending problem. stuart: they sold the deal of tax the rich, bring in more revenue an
even tim geithner is like listen, guys, dropping these hints saying how many times can we go through this. how many times can we keep the clock one second before midnight and i don't know. stuart: to say we run out of money on february 15th, that is not true because you have tax revenue coming at you. simply means the treasury has to decide where it will use -- charles: don't give veterans their benefits, some really stark and tough choices. the money coming in but how you did the out someone...
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. >>> and report that tim geithner will leave before that battle has many wondering how that could affect the economy. >>> if you think hillary's departure of the secretary of state will leave the country without a clinton on center stage, think again. >>> and "office politics." i talk to al roker from everything from the fiscal cliff to the first one-on-one he scored with the president after his short inauguration. good morning, welcome to "weekends with alex witt." we have front page politics. with the fiscal cliff deal behind us, president obama is turning his attention to the next battle in today's weekly address, the debt ceiling. >> one thing i will not compromise over is whether or not congress should pay the tab for a bill they already wracked up. if congress refuses to give the united states the ability to pay its bill on time, consequences for the entire global economy could be catastrophic. >> meanwhile, during a closed door meeting on friday, john boehner told members of the gop conference he plans to use the upcoming battle over raising the debt ceiling as leverage for more s
. >>> and report that tim geithner will leave before that battle has many wondering how that could affect the economy. >>> if you think hillary's departure of the secretary of state will leave the country without a clinton on center stage, think again. >>> and "office politics." i talk to al roker from everything from the fiscal cliff to the first one-on-one he scored with the president after his short inauguration. good morning, welcome to "weekends...
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tim geithner getting ready to cash out. now we know who will replace him as treasury secretary. fox news confirming president obama is choosing jack lew. casey anthony lawyers will appeal today. anthony was found guilty of lying to detectives. >>steve: you might have said you liked it when you got it, but what do you do with all those christmas presents if you didn't really like them and don't really need them? don't feel bad because roughly 10% to 15 partly cloudy of all christmas gifts are taken back or exchanged. that adds up to nearly $88 billion worth of things. how can you turn your unwanted gifts into cash? we are joined by an expert, sandra smith. good morning to you. >> good morning. >>steve: for one reason or another we get stuff for christmas maybe we don't need. we've got four of those already. you've got a way you can make some money. >> you can open a closet and dedicate it to all those unwanted christmas gifts and use them throughout the year. maybe you get candles and soaps you may not want. however you may be going to a dinner party later in the year -- >>steve:
tim geithner getting ready to cash out. now we know who will replace him as treasury secretary. fox news confirming president obama is choosing jack lew. casey anthony lawyers will appeal today. anthony was found guilty of lying to detectives. >>steve: you might have said you liked it when you got it, but what do you do with all those christmas presents if you didn't really like them and don't really need them? don't feel bad because roughly 10% to 15 partly cloudy of all christmas gifts...
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e expect the current chief of staff, jack lew, to replace outgoing treasury secretary tim geithner. >> hillary clinton is leaving. john kerry coming in. before she goes, she will testify on the attack on the u.s. consulate in benghazi. >> reporter: that's right. the white house fully expects that hillary will testify on benghazi before she leaves as secretary of state, doing something republicans have been demanding for a long time. >> jon karl, thanks very much. >>> now, to the fire that broke out on a boeing dreamliner at logan international airport in boston, right after passengers got off that jet. the japan airlines 787 was parked at the gate. no one was injured. but the fire was the latest in a string of incidents for the high-tech new jetliner. abc's jim avila is in washington with the latest. jim, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, amy. few things are as frightening as smoke on an airplane. but fortunately, in this case, the only real damage was done to the reputation of boeing's new dreamliner airplane. firefighters at boston's logan field, dousing smoke on the plane of
e expect the current chief of staff, jack lew, to replace outgoing treasury secretary tim geithner. >> hillary clinton is leaving. john kerry coming in. before she goes, she will testify on the attack on the u.s. consulate in benghazi. >> reporter: that's right. the white house fully expects that hillary will testify on benghazi before she leaves as secretary of state, doing something republicans have been demanding for a long time. >> jon karl, thanks very much. >>>...
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lew's in line to replace tim geithner. geithner had signature problems too. previous secretaries penned readable if not memorable signatures. geithner told public radio last week india is to blame. >> i took hand riting in india. i probably didn't get the best instruction. >> even if he did, he doesn't know where to begin. >> he has a symbolic strange signature. if he caressing legacy, he'll adjust his signature so that it's less transparent. >> now, for those of you who are wondering, my signature has ledgeability issues of its own, but nobody's asked me to be treasury secretary and definitely never will. >> thank you, major. >> what's interesting about this is why does he sign his name that way? >> i don't know, charlie. i was trying to figure out which is the jay, which is the a. i can't tell. do you think he'll change it? >>> we drink coffee in the morning to help us wake up, but did you know coffee might also fight off depression? we'll show you how many cups you may need to stay happy next. >>> and there's an investigation of an outbreak of legionnaires
lew's in line to replace tim geithner. geithner had signature problems too. previous secretaries penned readable if not memorable signatures. geithner told public radio last week india is to blame. >> i took hand riting in india. i probably didn't get the best instruction. >> even if he did, he doesn't know where to begin. >> he has a symbolic strange signature. if he caressing legacy, he'll adjust his signature so that it's less transparent. >> now, for those of you who...
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now fans of lew loops are petitioning to see his squiggles on every bill because when tim geithner became the head of the treasury, he changed his signature to be more legible on u.s. currency. we just checked and about 300 people have signed the petition. 25,000 signatures, though, needed to reach the petitioners' goal. >> jamie: could be a collector's item. president obama's approval rating taking a slight hit this week in the wake of the fiscal cliff deal. >> gregg: according to a brand-new rasmussen poll, 54% of likely voters approve of the job the president is doing. 44% disapprove. so what else are the polls telling us? >> jamie: scott rasmussen is an independent pollster. great to see you. how big a change was this? >> not much of a change at all. a week ago the president's job approval was 56%. the peak of his post-election bounce was 58%. so it's easing back to a more normal range right now. you got to keep it in context. first off, the job approval right now is higher than it was for most of his first term. the numbers break down like this. nine out of ten democrats say he's doi
now fans of lew loops are petitioning to see his squiggles on every bill because when tim geithner became the head of the treasury, he changed his signature to be more legible on u.s. currency. we just checked and about 300 people have signed the petition. 25,000 signatures, though, needed to reach the petitioners' goal. >> jamie: could be a collector's item. president obama's approval rating taking a slight hit this week in the wake of the fiscal cliff deal. >> gregg: according to...
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geithner. the odds on favorite jack liew. he would expect to be confirmed, but some in the business community, they're concerned, because he has little market or business experience. >>> and an eerie twist here in the search for that missing plane carrying fashion icon vittorio missoni. his wife and five others, a plane vanished friday off the coast of venezuela. but according to these new reports, the son of one of the men on board got a text message sunday night that said and i'm quoting this text, call now, we are reachable. the italian telephone company confirmed the message was sent but couldn't verify when it was written. crews continue the search off the country's coast. >>> in seaside heights, new jersey, look at this. look at this closely with me. this is that roller coaster and you see this man, he climbed to the tip-top of it, to call attention to the recovery from superstorm sandy or the lack thereof. there he is, scaling the same coaster chris christie said he vacationed at, took h
geithner. the odds on favorite jack liew. he would expect to be confirmed, but some in the business community, they're concerned, because he has little market or business experience. >>> and an eerie twist here in the search for that missing plane carrying fashion icon vittorio missoni. his wife and five others, a plane vanished friday off the coast of venezuela. but according to these new reports, the son of one of the men on board got a text message sunday night that said and i'm...
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. >> this week news broke that treasury secretary tim geithner is going to leave possibly by the end of the month, which means ahead of all of the debt ceiling talks. do you think that would hurt the economy if he's not there to be the one to help sort of, i don't know, keep everything on balance? >> i do worry a little bit about this. there's no clear person who would have been named if he's leaving at the end of the month. the name tossed around most commonly is jack lew. but he's not a clear candidate yet at least. secretary geithner has been very instrumental in talking to the congress for the last couple years about the budget and about the debt ceiling. he was very involved in 2011. he's obviously been very involved the last couple of months. if he leaves, i think we could -- it really depends who takes over for him. but i think we're -- i think we're looking at a lot of big issues to face before march and so it's really going to come down to who that person is that takes over. >> yeah, certainly. have to talk a little bit of football because we always talk about the commercial
. >> this week news broke that treasury secretary tim geithner is going to leave possibly by the end of the month, which means ahead of all of the debt ceiling talks. do you think that would hurt the economy if he's not there to be the one to help sort of, i don't know, keep everything on balance? >> i do worry a little bit about this. there's no clear person who would have been named if he's leaving at the end of the month. the name tossed around most commonly is jack lew. but he's...
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. >> the treasury secretary, tim geithner cleaned up his signature. there is now a petition to keep ja jack's doodle. >> kind of like when your little kid draws hair on you. >> i can do better than that with this cast on. >> we're doing autographs of the these. >> mine impossible. you can't even -- >> that's pretty good. >> roker's is beautiful. >> come on! >> makes you want to be a weather person. >> here's me. >> nat callie, looks like you did that with a cast. >> i did. >> what does that say? >> corbin bernsen. >> the simple like french. [ elizabeth ] i like to drink orange juice or have lemon in my water... eat tomato sauce on my spaghetti. the acidic levels in some foods can cause acid erosion. the enamel starts to wear down. and you can't grow your enamel back. i was quite surprised, as only few as four exposures a day what that can do to you. it's quite a lesson learned. my dentist recommended that i use pronamel. because it helps to strengthen the enamel. he recommended that i use it every time i brush. you feel like there is something that yo
. >> the treasury secretary, tim geithner cleaned up his signature. there is now a petition to keep ja jack's doodle. >> kind of like when your little kid draws hair on you. >> i can do better than that with this cast on. >> we're doing autographs of the these. >> mine impossible. you can't even -- >> that's pretty good. >> roker's is beautiful. >> come on! >> makes you want to be a weather person. >> here's me. >> nat callie,...
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if confirmed by the senate, he would replace tim geithner. some complain that he is too unyielding in past fiscal negotiations, specifically alabama senator jeff sessions. he says, "jack lew must never be treasury secretary." adding, "any loan disqualifies." senator sessions is not saying yet whether he will filibuster the nomination. president obama will make the announcement at 1:30 p.m. eastern time, and you can hear it live on c-span radio or watch on c-span. meanwhile, labor secretary bill the sully's is resigning, saying she returns -- labor secretary hilda solis is resigning. responding to the news, president obama called her a tireless champion for working families. the white house says that attorney general eric holder, health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius, and -- will remain at their posts. a new rule on mortgages. the aim is to return -- for the first time, federal regulators are laying out rules to ensure mar words can afford to pay the cost of the mortgages. the consumer financial protection bureau will -- when t
if confirmed by the senate, he would replace tim geithner. some complain that he is too unyielding in past fiscal negotiations, specifically alabama senator jeff sessions. he says, "jack lew must never be treasury secretary." adding, "any loan disqualifies." senator sessions is not saying yet whether he will filibuster the nomination. president obama will make the announcement at 1:30 p.m. eastern time, and you can hear it live on c-span radio or watch on c-span. meanwhile,...
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tim geithner is out. he'll be replaced by a guy, jack lew, the guy who, if you've been watching the tv over the last day or so, jack lew is the guy who signs his name with what surely looks like a slinky. >>brian: front page "where are the women?" they take a picture and talk about the cabinet of the administration. all the women are being replaced by men. white men too on top of that. let me show you a picture in "the new york times." all we see is valerie jar rhett's leg -- valerie jarrett's leg. >>steve: on december 29 that is the pr-z meeting with ten guys and they're talking about the fiscal cliff. >>brian: could they back up a little. >>gretchen: this is a picture they released the day after, i believe. and you can see valerie jarrett front and center facing the president. then there are two other women who are in the photos. was it a reaction to that original picture? brian, you bring up a good point that there are no minorities -- there's one, i think, in that original picture. it is an interestin
tim geithner is out. he'll be replaced by a guy, jack lew, the guy who, if you've been watching the tv over the last day or so, jack lew is the guy who signs his name with what surely looks like a slinky. >>brian: front page "where are the women?" they take a picture and talk about the cabinet of the administration. all the women are being replaced by men. white men too on top of that. let me show you a picture in "the new york times." all we see is valerie jar rhett's...